28 July 2017

News Story: Xi says China must strive for great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- China must strive for the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, President Xi Jinping said at the opening session of a high-level workshop in preparation for the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at the workshop attended by provincial and ministerial officials, which ran from Wednesday to Thursday.

"Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the theme of all the Party's theories and practices since the reform and opening up" nearly forty years ago, Xi said.

"The CPC must hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics," he said.